File 959/1914 Pt 2 'Abyssinia: Order in Council. Recovery of maintenance charges of prisoners convicted in Abyssinia and confined in Aden District Prison.' [‎232r] (389/878)

"recherche et l*arrestatin dee eoupablee, a
"charge par elle a f en informer iinmexHatement
”le consul do France die &e les remet ire outre
"see mains"*
2 . ‘hlle we hare, under our treaty of 1897,
no right of most-favoured-nation treatment, except
in regard to i.mport duties, and although we have
never formally adhered to the franco-Abyssinian
treaty as regards jurisdiction, we have, however,
always claimed for our subjects the benefits of the
french treaty by usage and custom, and in sill cases
where a British subject has been brought before an
Abyssinian court Bis Majesty’s legation he.a been
represented*
3* Our rights under the French treaty were
insisted upon in July, 1912 when, in consequence of
a dispute in regard to the handing over, under the
last paragraph of article 7, of an Italian who had
murderer an Abyssinian, a memo randurn was sent to the
Abyssinian government on behalf of the British,
French, German, Italian, Russian and United States
representatives at Addis Ababa, setting forth the
claims of those countries under that article.
4* In April, 1922 a draft treaty respecting
British jurisdiction in Abyssinia was forwarded to
His Majesty’s Minister at Addis Ababa, article $ of
the draft stipulating that
"legal proceedinna in Ethiopia between
"British subjects or British protected persons
"and Ethiopian subjects shall be subject to
"the jurisdiction of a special court in which